BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) said its monomers division, which already manufactures 345 certified products ranging from isocyanates and polyamides to inorganic materials, has now won global ISCC Plus and RED-cert² status in all major product lines.

The German chemical giant touts the status gain as the latest milestone in its drive to offer sustainable products from certified sites worldwide. Its US site at Geismar, Louisiana, for example, can now offer regional customers both ISCC Plus and REDcert²-classified isocyanates and polyamides produced locally.

In January 2023, the BASF monomers divison set itself the goal of developing a circular option in every major product line by 2025, and at the end of February 2024 it appeared to be more than two-thirds of the way towards meeting it.

Currrently, the division claims that 70% of its wide portfolio of isocyanates, polyamides, glues and resins, along with precursors and inorganics products, can be sold in chemically recycled (Ccycled) or biomass-balanced variants (BMB), alternatively as LowPCF products, or as Zero Emissions, Renewable Origin (ZERO) variants.

In addition to developing new product variants, BASF says it continues to invent new sustainable solutions such as polyol recycling. The newest portfolio addition, loopamid, is aimed at boosting circularity in the fashion industry by recycling PA 6-based textile waste such as fibres into new yarn, while retaining the material characteristics of conventional virgin polyamide over multiple cycles.

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The monomers division also claims to have further reduced its carbon emissions, as an important step toward BASF’s target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Among high-impact solutions, the group lists improved heat recovery measures at its Shanghai BASF Polyurethane (SBPC) site, which are expected to reduce carbon emissions by up to 34,000 t annually.